Title Religious Creeds and Statistics of Every Christian Denomination in

Highlights 1836

Location Published 19TH-AM-MA-BOSTON-HAYWARD

Book Number 17493

HAYWARD, JOHN. The Religious Creeds and Statistics of Every Christian Denomination in the United States and British Provinces. With Some Account of the Religious Sentiments of the Jews, American Indians, Deists, Mahometans, &c. Alphabetically Arranged. By John Hayward. Boston: Published by John Hayward. For Sale by the principal Booksellers generally in the several States. Press of Jonathan Howe, No. 39, Merchants Row, 1836. 12mo, 12 x 18.8cm. Bound publisher's brown cloth with embossed floral/vine pattern in blind, remains of printed paper title label on spine, bottom 2cm of spine cloth lacking, worn through cloth at top of spine and corners, worn through cloth along 4cm of rear hinge, covers soiled, bright yellow endpapers, both sets of endpapers split along lower 5 & 6cm of hinges, starts, damp stain on pp149-50, p150 with 4 lines crossed out with black pencil of some kind--can still read the crossed out text with a magnifying glass, light foxing. Collation: 2 unsigned leaves, 2-136, 144. Pagination: (1) title, (1) copyright, [3]-4 preface, [5]-114 main text, [115]-156pp Appendix. American Imprints 36-37959, with locations: Pacific Sch Rel. Berkeley; Garrett Biblical Inst.; Amer. Antq. Soc,; N.H. Hist. Soc.; Brown Univ. OCLC adds: Columbia Univ; Stanford Univ; Univ. Minn.; Emory Univ.; Utah Hist Soc.; and in England: 2 in British Library. This work covers the United States and Canada is alphabetical by denomination. It includes Christian Connexion, Disciples of Christ, Harmonists (1 paragraph), Indian religions, Mormonites(13pp), Shakers(7pp), Tunkers. The article on the "Mormonites" is in the appendix and includes The Character of [Joseph] Smith, by his father-in-law, Isaac Hale. Flake: A Mormon Bibliography, #3926. Richmond: